LG has customized the interface of the camera, giving you quite a few options to mess around with, including focusing modes, brightness and contrast, white balance, shooting modes (like Beauty shot and Panorama), ISO, scenes and so on.

Camera interface

Image quality with the 3MP autofocus camera of the LG Optimus GT540 is bearable in case you take photos mainly on the outside. Such shots have nice sharpness to them, providing some decent details. Meanwhile, colors are relatively well saturated and correctly reproduced. Brightly lit areas have a tendency to get overexposed, but this won't be that much of a problem when it's not a super-sunny day.

Outdoor samples shot with the LG Optimus GT540

Moving indoors produces somewhat blurry and noisy photos. On the whole, we are disappointed with the indoor image quality. Moreover, the Optimus lacks a flash, which limits the possible usage scenarios to an extent.

Strong light

Medium light

Low light

Indoor samples

You can use the cam of the LG Optimus GT540 to record VGA resolution videos, which is okay, but they are also captured at mediocre 17 frames per second, which is not really okay. Moving the camera around will cause quite a lot of distortion, so you'll have to hold the Optimus as steady as possible.

The LG Optimus GT540 is a strange concept when it comes to its multimedia playback capabilities. You can flawlessly play Xvid files with resolution of up to 640x360 pixels, and you can even go beyond that resolution, but the performance will be getting worse with each additional pixel.

Now for the surprise: you cannot play MPEG-4, DivX or H.264 videos on the Optimus. At least we couldn't run our tests files, which have always worked on other Android devices (we mean, the MPEG-4 ones). So there you have it - a nice Xvid-capable Android smartphone, crippled by its inability to play other popular codecs.

Video playback

Unfortunately, we couldn't test the headset that's going to come in the box of the LG Optimus GT540. However, we tried playing some tunes through the loudspeaker and it proved to be an average performer. Its loudness can get decently high, but it may as well introduce you to some crackling, especially on some heavier songs. Lowering the volume just a bit takes care of that problem and leaves you with a normally powerful speaker.

26.achuthan (unregistered)

resistive touch input senses force ( it has two sheets slightly apart and senses where you press by where the sheets touch (due to your press))
resesitve requires more effort - and usually can't support multi-touch.

capacitive touch input senses heat/electrical signals
so is much easier to use - only requires you to touch the screen lightly and supports multi touch

3.rinda (unregistered)

4.aespe (unregistered)

im using this phone, not too superb, but on par with its cheap price
@jaypee, with resistive you can access the screen with anything (hands, phone, sticks, etc) most of not expensive smartphone using this type, resistive cant be multi touched (cmiiw), capacitive must be controled by somehing that has charge in it, example, hands, battery etc, example iphone

5.jugal (unregistered)

I had this phone for 1 day before returning it. The problem with phone is it's antenna - it struggles to get reception in the same location other phones I owned have a good - full bars - signal.
The phone I'm currently using is Nokia 5230. There is always a full signal on 3G. The Optimus gets about 2 bars at best on 2G. This is when using the same sim as the Nokia.
I tried phoning the mobile from a landline to test it's responsiveness - out of 6 calls spaced about 5 minutes apart, 3 of the calls didn't cause the mobile to ring but went straight through to my network's answerphone - I know from experiece this is due to poor signal.
Having such a weak antenna means this phone doesn't suceed in it's most primary function so it's hard to see how any website could possibly recommend it.
I've experinced the same problem with many HTC phones.
What would be useful to see here on this website is an accessment of each phone's ability to receive a signal because it's clear to me that there are large differences between 1 phone's ability to receive a signal and another. And what use is a phone that is incapable of connecting unless you happen to always be in a strong signal area?

9.tofs (unregistered)

10.mia (unregistered)

i wanna know if anyone of you did have a problem regarding receiving messages? coz my lg optimus is kinda annoying me. i did receive messages but it were just on the notifications but no where to be found on the inbox. is it probably because of the phone or the network?? thanks for the reply. :)

13.abi (unregistered)

this is a cool phone.., i'm in indonesia..
i have no complaint about this phone, the signal, GPS and othrers is good..
it can preview the document (doc, xls, pdf, ppt) and can edit that kinda file too, but with pro version application (buy). about the messaging, it very cool. you can read all of the message from whom u re SMS with.
for the contact, it can sync with gmail, facebook etc. (like another android) or import it from SD card (u must export contact to SD card first, from ur old phone).

the camera is great, for 3mp camera.

it can upgrade to eclair (2.1), n now in progress to 2.2 (froyo)
with "customize" it, u also can root n app2sd.

14.nepaliguy (unregistered)

can anyone help me i got an lg gt540 on the 29th december 2010 on tesco mobile i had £40.00 credit on it i went onto android market market and downloaded some FREE apps anyway by the 30th december i had £0.00 credit left and i never used my phone for a phonecall,message or anything other than downloading these free apps the next day i put £10.00 credit on and went onto one of the apps i downloaded some background picture thing looking through for new wallpaper and then after around 10 mins i had no credit left again!!! im furious and confused i dont get how my phone is eating all my talktime soooooo quickly, has anyone got any ideas as to why this keeps happening and how i can stop it......i love the phone but hating the running cost!!!

18.qwerty (unregistered)

If your on wi-fi then I don't know but it sounds like your using data roaming. If you are using data roaming and you're downloading lots of things its going to use a lot of credit because you are charged with every megabyte of internet you use and downloading uses a lot.

To stop this go into the settings and onto 'Wireless and Networks' then in 'Mobile network settings' un-tick Data roaming. This, however, turns of text messaging. If you want an easier way which keeps messaging download 'APNdroid' from the marketplace. I have it and it works fine on my Optimus. Hope this helps :)

22.desi (unregistered)

23.maller (unregistered)

I'm sorry to agree with the guy with the weak signal..
I own this phone for 2 months and the signal is awful, so there's nothing to review other than that..I would sell it but from what i saw in my country i'll only get about 100€ so it's not worth it..

25.brandonfiggins (unregistered)

27.sujeetpangal (unregistered)

i m using this phone frm last 1 month all r gud bt thr z battry problem..
whn i use phn fr songs or play ny applns is battry goes low frequntly,
so plz any one can tell mi how to utilize phone to increase bttry timing...
ny other sugetion or shud i contact support care....!

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